Little Red Book Draws Government Attention

narcolepticjim writes "An unnamed Dartmouth student was visited by Homeland Security for requesting a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book for a class project." From the article: "The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said."

Comments

Re:A little skepticism?

[11223]

Tell me, sir, where I chose any sort of repression? I only remarked that the sort of statement that the professor made sounds like it comes from a classic academic bubble. I also think that calling any political or philosophical book harmless is tantamount to calling it useless.

Re:Well, hey...

[TubeSteak]

You obviously didn't read the article, they visited his house, brought his requested book with them, but didn't leave it.

I wouldn't call that fascisism, more like asshattery.
They just don't know how to put the Service into Public Servant.

UMass Dartmouth != Dartmouth

[monkeyserver.com]

One is ivy league one is a state school. Not that UMD isn't a good school, but it's not Dartmouth. Good to see good old new beige making it into news.

Re:And if you are lonely this holiday season...

[koreaman]

So? I don't know enough history to really know that much about Lenin, but what's wrong with having Marxist stuff on there? If it was "Mein Kampf" or something I would understand your concern, but what's wrong with a relatively benign philosopher and economist?